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The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful…The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull…
The fountain opened, or, The great gospel privilege of having Christ exhibited to sinful men wherein also is proved that there shall be a national calling of the Jews from Zech. XIII. I. / by Samuel Willard ...The fountain opened, or, The great gospel priviledge of having Christ exhibited to sinfull men wherein also is proved that there shall be a national calling of the Jews from Zech. XIII. I. / by Samuel Willard ...
printed by B. Green for Samuel Sewall Junior, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
USE III. For Exhortation, in several particulars.
1. Let this point awakened Sinners in what way to seek after Christ. Certainly, when God sets Sin home upon the Conscience of a Sinner, it calls aloud to him to repair to the fountain. And would you go to it, so as to participate in the saving efficacy of it? then,
1. Do it mournfully. Dry addresses to God are insignificant things, and will find no acceptance. Beg of God then to bestow such a Spirit upon you, and labour to express it with all suitable deportment. Labour therefore to embitter your Sin to your selves, with all the proper considerations that may make it vile, and fill you with the deepest sense of your misery by reason of it. This is the only way for you to give God his glory both of his Righteousness in condemning you, and his rich mercy in pardoning and healing you. You will never come humbly, unless you come mourning: and this is the way to obtain the blessing from him. God takes distinct notice of this, and he is pleased with it; see, Jer. 31. 18, with 20. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, &c. Is Ephraim my dear Son? &c. And ⟨p. 163⟩we find that Christ was anointed purposely for the relief of such, Isa. 61. begin.